Return java.lang.Double for FLOAT type from ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName(). (Bug#2855)

Return [B instead of java.lang.Object for BINARY, VARBINARY and LONGVARBINARY types from ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName() (JDBC compliance). (Bug#2855)

Issue connection events on all instances created from a ConnectionPoolDataSource. (Bug#2855)

Return java.lang.Integer for TINYINT and SMALLINT types from ResultSetMetaData.getColumnClassName(). (Bug#2852)

Added useUnbufferedInput parameter, and now use it by default (due to JVM issue http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4401235.html) (Bug#2578)

Fixed failover always going to last host in list. (Bug#2578)

Detect on/off or 1, 2, 3 form of lower_case_table_names value on server. (Bug#2578)

AutoReconnect time was growing faster than exponentially. (Bug#2447)

Trigger a SET NAMES utf8 when encoding is forced to utf8 or utf-8 using the characterEncoding property. Previously, only the Java-style encoding name of utf-8 would trigger this.